Foundation-Year 2 Report Comments AU

Write one warm overall report comment for every Foundation, Year 1 or Year 2 student in one sitting. Type first names, pick an English grade and a maths grade, and the builder writes one paragraph per student: an opening, how the child approaches learning, strengths from the areas you taught, one next step with its own simple idea to try at home, a sentence about friendships and getting on with others, your own sentence if you add one, and a closing. Then read, edit and paste.

Made for the one-comment report: WA public schools write one overall comment of up to 1,000 characters for Pre-primary to Year 6, covering English and mathematics. The builder counts characters and words as you go; a comment over your limit turns red, and the Short switch trims it.

Works with your scale, even without A-E: Queensland Prep, Victorian five-point scales, and South Australian Reception, NSW Kindergarten, WA Pre-primary and NT Transition reports with no letter grade. A table on the Class tab shows which grade box to pick; no comment ever prints a letter or a scale word.

What’s included (1,663 different sentences across 2 builders):

• Foundation: 226 English comments across 9 areas and 176 mathematics comments across 7 areas
• Years 1-2: 251 English comments across 10 areas and 250 mathematics comments across 10 areas
• Four next steps for each of A/B, C and D/E in every area, each with its own at-home idea that practises the same skill (432 in all, free and everyday)
• 60 social sentences and 65 learning-behaviour lines in each builder
• Semester 2 and Semester 1 openings and closings in a Positive, Steady and Supportive tone
• Two builders for up to 40 students each (Excel .xlsx; opens in Google Sheets)
• Two printable PDFs (52 and 57 pages) of every comment with its character count

How it works:

• Pick up to three English and three mathematics areas you taught; strengths come only from those
• The next step goes to the subject with the lower grade
• Optional learning behaviour, social skills and your own sentence
• Classmates with the same grades rarely get the same next step; Try another gives new sentences
• Pick He or She for each student (left blank, the builder uses the child’s name)
• Australian spelling, plain English for parents and carers; works offline in Excel and in Google Sheets

Teaching Years 3-6 too? The Years 3-6 overall builder in the same shop works the same way: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/overall-report-comments-years-3-6-au-13624943
Own our Victorian Foundation-Year 2 packs? Many English and mathematics lines also appear there, rewritten here for one overall paragraph.

Please read and edit every comment so it is true for your student. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any state or territory education department or curriculum authority. Licence: one teacher, your own classes.